Midwits: A NAZI salute, I cannot believe it, L~i~t~e~r~a~l~l~y Hitler! Get the emigration papers I’m doing it this time, fuck / He totally did the salute brothers and sisters! 1488!
I don’t have a reason to read anything into it. Public speaking is a nervewracking activity, and everyone who’s done it can recall one thing they did in the spotlight that they would never have done outside it - a certain turn of phrase, a verbal tic, a gesture, a tone. A man with a long track record of awkward public behaviour, and a bad public speaker at that, tells an audience his heart goes out to them, and then gestures emphatically to that effect. I know that calls for shit-flipping and general hysteria on Lemmy.World, but that’s because LW is for all intents and purposes the ‘Reddit instance’, not because Musk’s behaviour was inherently offensive.
It would have been so easy for the ADL to pile on and call it fascist, given its own backgound. Whether they are right or not isn’t important, what matters is they were slow to judge. Perhaps there’s some political calculus in that choice, perhaps not. We know who took the easy option though: Ocasio-Cortez, leading from behind (like all politicians do) by working out her constituency’s bias, then airing that bias publicly.
Grug: Heh he made a from-the-heart gesture
Midwits: A NAZI salute, I cannot believe it, L~
i~t~e~r~a~l~l~y Hitler! Get the emigration papers I’m doing it this time, fuck / He totally did the salute brothers and sisters! 1488!Monk: Heh he made a from-the-heart gesture
(I cbf photoshopping it, it’s late🤌)
My guy, what reason do you have to defend this
I don’t have a reason to read anything into it. Public speaking is a nervewracking activity, and everyone who’s done it can recall one thing they did in the spotlight that they would never have done outside it - a certain turn of phrase, a verbal tic, a gesture, a tone. A man with a long track record of awkward public behaviour, and a bad public speaker at that, tells an audience his heart goes out to them, and then gestures emphatically to that effect. I know that calls for shit-flipping and general hysteria on Lemmy.World, but that’s because LW is for all intents and purposes the ‘Reddit instance’, not because Musk’s behaviour was inherently offensive.
It would have been so easy for the ADL to pile on and call it fascist, given its own backgound. Whether they are right or not isn’t important, what matters is they were slow to judge. Perhaps there’s some political calculus in that choice, perhaps not. We know who took the easy option though: Ocasio-Cortez, leading from behind (like all politicians do) by working out her constituency’s bias, then airing that bias publicly.
Everyone is interpreting it as a Nazi salute and since the inauguration he said absolutely nothing to refute that. I’d say that’s telling enough.
I can think of one reason right away.
as you can read on al jazeera, not only Elon did something that clearly resembles the nazi salute but he also has ties with the nazi party.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/21/elon-musk-at-trumps-inauguration-whats-the-history-of-the-nazi-salute
There is no excuse or funny remark to be made about it AND there is nothing to defend Elon about it. THIS SHIT MUST BE CALLED OUT!
Also, being “anti-woke” is a dog whistle for nazis and we know that Elon claim to be anti-woke, anti-trans and anti-lgbt.
Also, for all the anti-wokes: WHY THE FUCK DO YOU CARE ABOUT THE PRIVATE SEX LIFE OF OTHERS INSTEAD OF MINDING YOUR OWN BUSINESS FOR FUCKS SAKE???